John Grisham Quotes
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I love my sleep.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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Bullies always have another target.
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
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I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.
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Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
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We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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Men are always much more dignified than most women.
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Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
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Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.
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I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
